Thespis (novelas cortas y cuentos)

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Un viejo Pontiac del 56 avanza por una avenida de Miami. Una mujer, de unos setenta años, de origen cubano, se dirige pensativa a la esquina tras su paseo matinal. Cuando el coche la embiste, el conductor hubiera jurado que la mujer sonreía. Un accidente se define, entre otras cosas, como un suceso que trastoca el orden natural de los acontecimientos. Esta última novela del autor, recupera esta definición para presentar un mundo fragmentado, construido por diversas historias que se imbrican alrededor de la pasible vida del exilio cubano en Estados Unidos. Gabriel vive junto con su madre y ...

Agustin Moreto (1618-1669) was one of the most acclaimed playwrights of the Spanish Golden Age, his fame equaling that of authors as Calderon de la Barca.However, only two of Moreto's famous plays ?"El lindo don Diego" and "El desden, con el desden"? are available in modern editions. The present volume is a critical edition of "Los enga?os de un enga?o", one of many Golden Age comedies left unpublished for many years until now. The modern reader wishing to become acquainted with baroque theatre will find here an excellent starting point, as this is a typical "cloak and dagger" comedy,...

Jorge Vane, funcionario del Ministerio Británico de Informaciones, es el hilo conductor de los seis cuentos de este libro, escritos en Buenos Aires en las décadas de 1930 y 1940, en pleno estallido de la narrativa policial argentina. Vane actúa resolviendo misterios con su arriesgada presencia en la zona de la Triple Frontera, o mediante un intercambio de cartas a distancia, o en la zona de teatros de la Rive Gauche de París, o en el interior de la Inglaterra rural, o en una ciudad portuaria del Plata, o en una indeterminada casona noble en los Estados Unidos… La mano ya maestra de un...

From his village in post-war France, Brodeck makes his solitary journeys into the mountains to collect data on the natural environment. Day by day he also reconstructs his own life, all but lost in the years he spent in a camp during the war. No-one had expected to see him again. One day, a flamboyant stranger rides into the village, upsetting the fragile balance of everyday life. Soon he is named the Anderer, "the other," and tensions rise until, one night, the newcomer is murdered. Brodeck is instructed to write an account of the events leading to his death, but his report delivers much...